quotations about debt
Another thing that leads people into debt is trying to keep up with people already there.
EVAN ESAR
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The big celebration, the wedding or housewarming, takes place not when the debt is discharged, but when it is undertaken. What is emphasized on TV, for example, is not the middle-aged man who has finally paid off his mortgage, but the young man who moves into his new home with his family, proudly waving the papers he has just signed and which will bind him for most of his productive years. After he has paid his debts--the mortgage, the college expenses for his children and his insurance--he is regarded as a problem, a "senior citizen" for whom society must provide not only material comforts but a new "purpose."
ERIC BERNE
Games People Play
It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES
diary, Jul. 13, 1879
Man hazards the condition and loses the virtues of a freeman, in proportion as he accustoms his thoughts to view without anguish or shame, his lapse into the bondage of debtor.
EDWARD BULWER LYTTON
Caxtoniana
There is no happiness with responsibilities which cannot be met, and debts increasing without any prospect of their discharge.
JACOB ABBOTT
attributed, Day's Collacon
It is a remarkable peculiarity with debts, that their expanding power continues to increase as you contract them.
R. C. DALLAS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and bone, its jaw is the pitiless grave.
EDWARD BULWER LYTTON
Caxtoniana
Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine government, and corrupt the people.
WENDELL PHILLIPS
The War for the Union
A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
CHINUA ACHEBE
No Longer at Ease
There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried treasure on every mortgaged homestead. Whether the farmer ever digs for it or not, it is there, haunting his daydreams when the burden of debt is most unbearable.
FAWN M. BRODIE
No Man Knows My History
There are two things that bestow consequence; great possession, or great debts.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
Debt is the prolific mother of folly and of crime.
BANJAMIN DISRAELI
Henrietta Temple
The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.
P. G. WODEHOUSE
Love Among the Chickens
It takes many lives till we succeed
To clear the debts
Of many, many hundred years
ENIGMA
"Second Chapter", The Cross of Changes
What you can't pay back you pay forward.
JO WALTON
Farthing
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
HERBERT HOOVER
attributed, The Truth About the National Debt
You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store
MERLE TRAVIS
"Sixteen Tons", Folk Songs of the Hills
There is nothing more to be dreaded than debt; when a person, whose principles are good, unhappily falls into this situation, adieu to all peace and comfort; the reflection embitters every meal, and drives from the eyelids refreshing sleep.
JEREMY TAYLOR
attributed, Day's Collacon
Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.
ENGLISH PROVERB
About the only thing you can acquire without money is debt.
EVAN ESAR
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